Pickled Egg Jukebox-Your Selections

[NewcastleFalcon]

Probably their best song, on XY day I heard the rythym of "Aha..ha-ha I'm just a love machine" in parts.
Yes Roundabout.



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[NewcastleFalcon]

T?he aforementioned Love Machine



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[NewcastleFalcon]

Close to an X but not quite this is Reg Kehoe and his marimba queens from the 1930's.

Bass player is ace from around 1.00 onwards



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[myglaren]

A new and very different Taylor Momsen (Pretty Reckless)

Some say it should be a new Bond theme and she a Bond girl. She has a fair amount of acting experience so not beyond the bounds of possibility. (She was the little girl in The Grinch, among other things).

I hadn't realised that she wrote most of their songs.
One of the very few modern bands I can tolerate, more due to her than the music I suspect.

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A very long and elegant neck - like her legs!

Acoustic version

[Paul-R]

I heard this on Radio Caroline today and learned that Leslie West of the Band Mountain died two days ago at the age of 75. This is their most famous song - Nantucket Sleighride. The final few seconds of the track will be familiar to those "of a certain age" as being the theme tune to the Brian Walden political programme Weekend World (1972 to 1988).

[myglaren]

You have just reminded me that I forgot to post "West, Bruce and Laing in the Advent thread.

[NewcastleFalcon]

The final few seconds of the track will be familiar to those "of a certain age" as being the theme tune to the Brian Walden political programme Weekend World (1972 to 1988).

Yes and on old current affairs programmes, one of the best theme tunes I fairly often give an airing too.

....and Francis Lai happens to be the answer to one of the questions in the crossword in Mojo magazine this month.

I do hope the clue was.

"Who composed the theme tune to the long running BBC TV programme "Panorama"

..and for the enjoyment of others who may have forgotten the theme tune to the "other sides" offering on a Monday night ie "World in Action" here it is again. I think its absolutely awesome. You have the opening titles which is just good, but the closing titles offer a superbly melancohlic variation on a theme, as if reflecting on the weighty content of that which had gone before. If you remember the programme so much the better but the music stands up on its own....

Regards neil

[myglaren]

Unexpected to see Shawn Philips name there!

[myglaren]

One of the 'sadly missed' from the advent thread.

Grace Slick & The Great Society. I have this track on an LP - "Conspicuous Only By Their Absence".
Ten bob in the early sixties.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Nice bit of old blues accompaniment to this little 2 minute vid of the 1955 Huffy Radio bike subject of "on your bike" and Jims Vintage Radio and audio thread...

Bill "Jazz" Gillum Key to the Highway. Nice vocal style and excellent harmonica and a 8 bar blues standard which appears on "Layla and other assorted love songs" but goes in for a bit longer. Inspired me to pick up my guitar and let you tube teach me how to play it!



Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Passing reference to gasworks on Energy Matters thread,

Nice version of this which mentions Gasworks in the first line. The Salford Gasometers have been demolished, but the wall preserved! The original song here starts 'I found my love by the gasworks croft...' other covers often change "croft" to "wall" eg the Pogues. Rod Stewart/Donovan sing the original words!

https://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=3888

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

Not everyone's cup of tea. I saw them on 'Later' and wondered what the hell I was watching but grew to like them pretty quickly.
Have seen them live twice and they were superb - actually better than in this clip.
They played for two and a half hours each time without a break, just individual members would go offstage for ten minutes.

[mickthemaverick]

Just for Neil:

[Paul-R]

Neil noticed I was approaching a significant number of posts (5,000 - nothing compared to some I know) and suggested I make it in the Jukebox.

I pondered long and hard about what to offer and in the end came up with this. It's the Classic Rock Show with what is usually their final encore - Free Bird. The band are musically superb and can celebrate (copy is too derogatory a word) many different styles but this surely has to be their acme. Whenever this is played I find myself tearing up during the beautiful interplay between the two lead guitars.



I went to a special show put on by the band a week before Christmas at the M&S Bank (formerly Echo) Arena in Liverpool. It was touch and go whether it would take place but fortunately we stayed in Tier 2 for long enough for it to take place.

I haven't seen the band, for various reasons, for two or three years now and I didn't recognise a single person in the line-up! They seem to have had a complete change of personnel - or maybe these were the only players that could get together during these troubled time. It was still a good evening though although the encores were somewhat Christmas related.

Two weeks on and neither of us have come down with coronavirus so the special seat spacing and restrictions have worked!

[NewcastleFalcon]

This very nearly made it into the How Many Miles in the Month random picture. Decca 68330 stamped on the label exactly matching my Micra end of month Milometer.

Gentle enough



Regards Neil